The Scottish Parliament (Elections etc.) Order 2007

Issue of official poll cards

37.—(1) The constituency returning officer shall as soon as practicable after the publication of notice of the election send to each elector and proxy an official poll card.

(2) An elector’s official poll card shall be sent or be delivered to his qualifying address, and a proxy’s to his address as shown in the list of proxies.

(3) The official poll card shall be in the form set out in the Appendix, and–

(a) the official poll card issued to an elector shall be in form M;

(b) the official postal poll card issued to an elector shall be in form M1;

(c) the official poll card issued to the proxy of an elector shall be in form N;

(d) the official postal poll card issued to the proxy of an elector shall be in form N1.

(4) The official poll card may, in addition to the matters in the form, set out such other information, not relating to any candidate or registered party, as the constituency returning officer considers appropriate, and different additional information may be provided to different electors or descriptions of elector.

(5) In this paragraph, “elector”–

(a) means a person who is registered in the register of electors for the constituency and the region on the last day for publication of notice of the election; and

(b) includes a person then shown in that register or in the record of anonymous entries as below voting age if (but only if) it appears from the register or record that he or she will be of voting age on the day fixed for the poll.